Jack Flam
Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, has just been published. (March 2003)
From the Review
March 27, 2003: Twin Peaks
Matisse Picasso Catalog of the exhibition by Elizabeth Cowling, John Golding, Anne Baldassari, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, John Elderfield, and Kirk Varnedoe
March 28, 2002: The Road to Minimalism
The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist by Alex Potts
April 26, 2001: Space Men
Paths to the Absolute: Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still John Golding
November 17, 1994: The New Painting
Origins of Impressionism 27, 1994-January 8, 1995 an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September
Origins of Impressionism catalog of the exhibition by Gary Tinterow, by Henri Loyrette
October 6, 1994: Madonna in Distress
February 17, 1994: Writing on Rothko (letter)
December 2, 1993: The Agonies of Success
Mark Rothko: A Biography by James E.B. Breslin
November 5, 1992: Passions of Matisse
Henri Matisse: A Retrospective 1992–January 12, 1993 an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York September 24,
Henri Matisse: A Retrospective catalog of the exhibition by John Elderfield
Collecting Matisse by Albert Kostenevich, by Natalia Semenova
February 13, 1992: The Alchemist
Anselm Kiefer by Mark Rosenthal
The Books of Anselm Kiefer, 1969-1990 edited by Götz Adriani, translated by Bruni Mayor
Anselm Kiefer: The High Priestess foreword by Anne Seymour, essay by Armin Zweite
Anselm Kiefer: Lilith essay by Doreet LeVitte Harten
Anselm Kiefer: Jason essay by John Hutchinson
November 7, 1991: The Enigma of Georges Seurat
Seurat: 1859–1891 24, 1991–January 12, 1992 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York September
Seurat: 1859–1891 catalog of the exhibition by Robert L. Herbert, with contributions by Françoise Cachin, by Anne Distel, by Susan Alyson Stein, by Gary Tinterow
Seurat by Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, translated by Jean-Marie Clarke
Seurat at Gravelines: The Last Landscapes by Ellen Wardwell Lee
Paul Signac and Color in Neo-Impressionism, including the first English edition of 'From Eugène Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism' by Paul Signac by Floyd Ratliff, Signac text translated by Willa Silverman
April 25, 1991: Taming the Beasts
The Fauve Landscape: Matisse, Derain, Braque, and Their Circle, 1904-1908 October 4–December 30, 1990; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 19–May 5, 1991; and The Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 10–September 1, 1991 an exhibition at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,
The Fauve Landscape catalog of the exhibition by Judi Freeman, with contributions by Roger Benjamin, by James D. Herbert, by John Klein, by Alvin Martin
March 28, 1991: Invader
A Life of Picasso Volume 1: 1881–1906 by John Richardson, with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully
May 17, 1990: Monet's Way
Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings 29; The Art Institute of Chicago, May 19–August 12, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 7–December 9 An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 7–April
Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings catalog of the exhibition by Paul Hayes Tucker
Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters edited by Richard Kendall
Impressions of Giverny: Monet's World by Charles Weckler
Monet's Table: The Cooking Journals of Claude Monet by Claire Joyes
November 23, 1989: Impressionism (letter)
September 28, 1989: Fleeting Impressionism
Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society by Robert L. Herbert
Books by Jack Flam
Matisse and Picasso (2003)
Judith Rothschild: An Artist's Search (1998)
Western Artists/african Art (1994)
Matisse, Image Into Sign: The Saint Louis Art Museum, February 19-April 5, 1993 (1993)
Matisse: The Dance (1993)
Richard Diebenkorn: Ocean Park (1992)
Motherwell (1991)
Matisse, the Man and His Art, 1869-1918 (1986)